RE: Nvidia cards
> From: Ron Johnson [mailto:ron.l.johnson@cox.net]
> Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 1:44 PM
>
> On 2009-08-27 15:38, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > On Thu,27.Aug.09, 04:14:50, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >
> >>> The special steps discussed in the thread are only
> required if you want
> >>> to get the last bit of hardware acceleration and 3D graphics.
> >> And, on older nvidia cards, h/w-accelerated MPEG-2 decoding.
> >
> > ... and on newer cards accelerated h264 decoding (VDPAU).
>
> Sadly, no nvidia cards that I know of have *both*.
Ron, are you referring to the XvMC extensions for MPEG-2 acceleration? If
so, this has been superceded by VDPAU. So any VDPAU-capable card can also
do MPEG-2 acceleration.
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